Comments on: Mormon History Coloring Book, 1923: January, “Loyalty to Principles”

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:23:42 +0000

I love these!

By: Hunter

Hunter — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:56:49 +0000

Great, thanks.

By: Ardis Parshall

Ardis Parshall — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:51:48 +0000

Hunter, I’ve spent some more time with the 1923 volume today and now understand what they were doing. It’s worth a separate post, to come in a few days.

I’ve also discovered a 6th picture for this set and will be adding it this evening, then will post the other sets over time.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:20:23 +0000

Delightful. Keep these coming! It’s interesting to see how the style of graphics and illustrations change over time. Plus, I would love to see if the artists ever stray into the scandalous practice of portraying deity as cartoons.

I found it a little odd that a 1923 publication would highlight, as its example of loyalty to principle, the colonizing effort of yesteryear. I would have thought they would have highlighted something a little more “modern”?

By: Jami

Jami — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:28:14 +0000

I think that Jack and Ned were the kids too. But I’m getting chickens this spring and they may become Jack and Ned and Keepa. I’ll send pictures if it happens. The kids will probably want to name them Red and Goldy and Princess Egg.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:26:03 +0000

Welcome, Doghouse. Rick, for me The Children's Friend was -- and always will be -- Barnaby Bumbleberry. Jami, I like the idea of naming a hen Jack, too, but I think Ned and Jack were the two boys who were assigned to catch the rooster and hen. Otherwise, it would be too challenging to decide which to put on our Keepa t-shirts: Jack the Hen, or Arnold's Hen of God!

By: Jami

Jami — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:15:39 +0000

They named their hen Jack? Love it.

By: Rick Grunder

Rick Grunder — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:52:52 +0000

“Old Mr. Mickle is as sour as a pickle . . .”

“The skinny, skinny kitty . . .”

“Playing Indian . . .”

Amazing, the power of publications (in my case, The Children’s Friend) to influence our ideas and graphics tastes from early childhood. Mom read to me regularly from the Friend, and it was a welcome arrival in our rural mailbox in the 1950s.

By: IntheDoghouse

IntheDoghouse — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:53:39 +0000

I have several copies of these old magazines which were my Mother-In-Laws at one time. The pictures and stories in them are priceless. Thanks for posting a great example for us to see!